Showing posts with label Soviet Armed Forces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Armed Forces. Show all posts
Friday, January 3, 2014

Myasishchev Mischief: The Bison and the Bomber Gap

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Barely a few years since the end of the Second World War, tensions are mounting between former allies as the United States and Soviet Union ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Penetrating the Blockade: How Operation Vittles sustained an encircled City

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The year was 1945, Berlin much like the rest of Germany lay in a state of ruin. Her streets and buildings were pockmarked with the graf...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Shturmovik Reborn: The Soviet Air Force and the Sukhoi Su-25

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With the success of the Ilyushin design Il-2 Bark and Il-10 Beast ground attack platforms employed against Nazi forces during the Great...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Man with a Smile that lit up the Cold War: Yuri Gagarin

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Coinciding with the massive arms buildup that became symbolic of the Cold War, was an increasing international interest in space explor...
Monday, July 15, 2013

The Nuclear Bear: The Soviet Union and the Quest for the Atomic Bomb

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The Cold War even though largely a state of conventional arms build ups across the world was defined by one type of weapon more destruc...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

The Case of the Disappearing Thunderstreaks: Luftwaffe Thunderstreaks in West Berlin

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In the years before the construction of the Berlin Wall, there were frequent incidents of territorial violations on both sides of th...